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«It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.»
Author: Bill Vaughn | About: Money, Poverty | Keywords: get even, studying
«I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough, let's go west.'»
Author: Richard Jeni | About: Funny, Poverty | Keywords: bunch, Chicago, enjoying, gee, Go West, West
«I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.»
Author: Sylvia Pankhurst | About: Capitalism, Fighting, Poverty | Keywords: all-around, capitalism, starving, well-fed
«It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.»
Author: Juvenal | About: Poverty | Keywords: thwart, thwarted, thwarting, thwarts
«I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.»
Author: Anatole France (Writer) | About: Gifts, Poverty | Keywords: True Value
«I have found out in later years [that] we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower (President) | About: America and Americans, Glory, Poverty
«I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.»
Author: Groucho Marx (Actor, Comedian, Singer) | About: Poverty | Keywords: extreme, extreme poverty, My Way, poverty, worked
«It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.»
Author: Kin Hubbard (Humorist, Writer) | About: Poverty
«It is better to be poor and live long than rich and die young»
Author: Proverb | About: Poverty
«It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.»
Author: Washington Irving (Writer) | About: Mind, Poverty | Keywords: harass, harassed, harasses, hollow, ruined
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